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fol. 38r    [fol. 37v, NG letter] 'Truth not easily Discerned'  (Pt II, Sn I, Ch II)  (3.143)
      
      
      
      
	I believe this kind of sensibility may be entirely resolved into the mechanical sensibility <I have> of which I have just been speaking . associated with
     Love .    love I mean - in its infinite & holy extent - as it <r[?]>embraces divine
     and human & brutal intelligence .  and hallows <its> {the} physical perception
 5   of external objects by association -  gratitude - veneration and other
     {<high> pure}attributes of our moral nature .      And {al}though - <as I have said in
     the first chapter> - the discovery of truth is in its{elf} <own nature> . purely
     intellectual  . and depende<d>{nt} on our powers of physical perception &
     abstract intellect -  wholly independent of our moral nature . yet these
10   instruments - (perception & judgment) are so sharpened & brightened
     and so ^ {far more} swiftly & effectively used - when they have the energy and passion of our moral nature to bring them into action - perception
     is so quickened by love - & judgment so tempered by Veneration -
     that - practically . a man of deadened moral sensation is always
15   dull in his perception of truth - and thousands of the highest and
     most divine truths of nature are wholly concealed from him  .
     however constant <or eager> {& indefatigable} may be his intellectual search .   Thus then - the farther we look - the more we are limited in the number of
     those whom we should choose to appeal to , as judges of truth , and the
20   more we perceive how great a majority of mankind are totally incapacitated
     from either discovering or feeling it  .
      
      

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